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Text Formatting: Resize Text Boxes Accurately on a Slide in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint resizing Text Boxes is easy. You select any Text Box and you get eight handles, four on corners, and four on sides, you then drag any of these eight handles to resize. The problem with this approach is that the resized Text Box you end up with is not accurate. If you do not need accuracy, then you need not follow the rest of this tutorial. However, there might be times when you need your Text Box sized exactly as the size of a picture you have inserted, or even an exact size based on a specification.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Resize Text Boxes Accurately on a Slide in PowerPoint 2016

Resize Text Boxes Accurately on a Slide in PowerPoint 2013

Resize Text Boxes Accurately on a Slide in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Resize Text Boxes Accurately on a Slide in PowerPoint 2011

Tutorial Code: 05 06 06
Previous: 05 06 05 Resize Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint
Next: 05 06 07 Text Layout Options in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 05-06, PowerPoint Tutorials, Text and Fonts, Text Formatting

Peter Wu

  Peter Wu is the Principal Software Engineering Manager for PowerPoint at Microsoft. His work focuses on helping to make PowerPoint more accessible for people with disabilities.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:

Microsoft 365 or Office 2021?
June 1, 2013

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Hyperlinking: Automatic Text Hyperlinks in PowerPoint

Now this automatic conversion to hyperlinks can be a mixed blessing. In some ways, it can be beneficial because most of the time, this automatic conversion may just be what you need! In other scenarios, you may get offended by PowerPoint’s hand-holding. Luckily, there are ways in which you can control this automatic conversion. You can turn off this automatic hyperlinking for a single link, and you can also toggle on and off this conversion altogether!

To learn more, click a link from the tutorials listed below.

Microsoft Windows

Automatic Text Hyperlinks in PowerPoint 2013

Tutorial Code: 15 02 06
Previous: 15 02 05 Transparent Hyperlinks in PowerPoint
Next: 15 02 07 Editing Hyperlinks in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 15-02, Hyperlinking, Interactivity and Linking, PowerPoint Tutorials

Text Formatting: Move or Reposition Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint

This tutorial is about moving text boxes rather than text placeholders. Typically text placeholders for regular text content or even slide titles are located in the same position on successive slides. So, if you really do need to move a text placeholder, do it within the Slide Master so that this change of position happens on all slides, providing a consistent look to your presentation. This will also prevent you from repeatedly moving the placeholders on each and every slide of your presentation.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Move or Reposition Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint 2016

Move or Reposition Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint 2013

Move or Reposition Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Move or Reposition Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint 2016

Move or Reposition Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint 2011

Tutorial Code: 05 06 02
Previous: 05 06 01 Selecting and Changing Text in PowerPoint
Next: 05 06 03 Move or Reposition Text Boxes Accurately on a Slide in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 05-06, PowerPoint Tutorials, Text and Fonts, Text Formatting

Hyperlinking: Transparent Hyperlinks in PowerPoint

Why would you add a hyperlink to any slide object within PowerPoint? There may be many answers to that question, but if we had to choose one answer that would be true all the time, it would be to add value to your slides and enhance their capabilities. However, these hyperlinks are two-edged swords because when you create a hyperlink, you may be telling your audience that it is a link! The purpose here is to make this link transparent, as in “invisible”.

To learn more, click a link from the tutorials listed below.

Microsoft Windows

Transparent Hyperlinks in PowerPoint 2013

Tutorial Code: 15 02 05
Previous: 15 02 04 Hyperlinking Text in PowerPoint
Next: 15 02 06 Automatic Text Hyperlinks in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 15-02, Hyperlinking, Interactivity and Linking, PowerPoint Tutorials